Originally published in The New York Times. President Trump will hardly be short of far-right cabinet members, including an education secretary who has called public schools a “dead end,” a labor secretary who has been cited for employment law violations and an Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has sued his own department. But within the […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. By any measure, 2016 was a momentous year, capped by the shocking victory of Donald J. Trump. As his choices for his cabinet were unveiled, a sea change in the path of government policy appeared inevitable. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump’s proposals will help those […]
Originally appeared in The NY Times. Donald J. Trump spent much of his campaign peddling hope to beleaguered working-class Americans that, on his watch, those old-fashioned, good-paying manufacturing jobs would come back to America. On Thursday, the president-elect was in Indiana to celebrate the news that the Carrier Corporation will move only 1,300 jobs to […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. Donald J. Trump is positioned to achieve the most radical reshaping of economic policy since Ronald Reagan. Even under Reagan, Republicans never controlled both houses of Congress. Since Mr. Trump has yet to provide many specifics, I can’t thoroughly assess the overall impact of his plan. But at […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. A Republican billionaire entrepreneur runs for president on a platform of huge tax cuts for the rich and for business and yet, when his candidacy appears ascendant, the markets swoon. When the prospects brighten for his Democratic challenger — who has not held a private sector job in […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. No shortage of critics unleashed their weaponry eight years ago as the federal government intervened to save General Motors and Chrysler when they teetered near bankruptcy. Among the more notable: Mitt Romney, who’s well remembered for his 2008 New York Times Op-Ed article, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” This […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. WE’VE all seen the long summer lines at airport security checkpoints full of angry travelers. But many of us haven’t heard the real reason: funding for the Transportation Security Administration has been sliced by 8.5 percent over the past five years, leading to a 5.5 percent drop in […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. HAVING long fretted over the state of our retirement system, I was delighted that the Department of Labor is vigorously defending its new rule requiring brokers to recommend only investments that are in the best interests of holders of retirement accounts. Hats off to the Obama administration for […]
Originally appeared in the New York Times. TYPE “Trump system rigged” into the Google search bar and you’ll get more than 500,000 hits. I didn’t inspect all of them but the first 50 were variants of Donald Trump complaining that the Republican primary process was tilted against him. That’s beyond ironic. Mr. Trump and his […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. MEMO to Republican legislators biting your nails over the New York primary, wondering if you can finally derail Donald J. Trump’s candidacy with, gulp, Ted Cruz: You brought it on yourselves. Not just by failing for too long to take Mr. Trump seriously or by lacking an effective […]
